if you think Obama is really any different from Clinton, you've been drinking the Kool-Aid

[asimplechord]

OK, so I've been really quiet about politics. Texas doesn't hold its primary until March, so I'm watching the Super Tuesday polls (ha, how funny that it falls on Mardi Gras!) with interest.

But... this post over at thedailyshow pisses me off. Because I don't belong to that comm to get preached at about politics. I belong to that comm to read updates and get news about Jon Stewart and The A Daily Show.

It's not that I disagree. And John McCain is a sorta scary opportunist, better than Romney but less preferable than a Democratic candidate.

Barack Obama isn't much different from Hillary Clinton. Both are corporate friendly. He's less cosy with AIPAC than she is, but he's totally backed away from the Muslim community he used to represent in Chicago. Both want to expand the military. Their insurance reform plans could be interchanged and most people wouldn't notice - neither is single-payer.

But still. It pisses me off to go to a community about a TV satire and be told for whom I should vote. WITHOUT A CUT-TAG, even, so I couldn't just scroll on by. Shut the fuck up, chuckdarwin, or at least do it on your own journal, or with a cut-tag.

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[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

Dude. That post pissed me off so much! I was hoping to see some people reaming him a new one, but, alas, nothing. He also posted that same post in the comm brits_americans, which has nothing to do with politics, except in cultural ways and how US/UK politics differ or are similar--and no one ripped him a new one there! And the sexist tone of so much of the agreement turned my stomach.

And, also, like Obama over Clinton, or whatever, that's anyone's right, but for Democrats to be so viciously antagonistic to a person who holds pretty much the exact same views becomes about hate and becomes personal, and immediately removes any supposition of rationality on the part of the other person in my eyes.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

That disturbed me even more - I read some of the comments, and they were all laudatory of Obama and bitchy about Clinton, and they didn't see anything wrong with that crap being posted there. >:/